Credit Peter Hammill
Original Band Van Der Graaf Generator
day dawns dark
it now numbers infinity
life crawls from the past
watching in wonder
I trace its patterns in me
tomorrow's tomorrow is birth again
boats burn the bridge in the fens
the time of the past returns to my life
and uses it
don't blame me
for the letters that may form in the sand
don't look in my eyes you may see all the numbers
that stretch in my sky and colour my hand
don't say that I'm wrong in imagining
that the voice of my life cannot sing
fate enters and talks in old words
they amuse it
hands shine darkly and white
only in dark they appear
bless the baby born today
( wicked little scorpio doomed to die a thousand times before he lives )
flying in pitch flying on fear
they shine in my yes and touch my face
where I have seen them placed before
don't blame me please for the fate thatfalls
I did not choose it
oh I truly did not choose it
